3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body1 and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.2 (Ps 51:5; Ro 5:12; Ga 5:16; 2Pe 2:14)

11Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— (Ro 2:26; Ro 2:28; Col 2:11; Col 2:13)